Hurricanes, flooding, landslides, wildfires and erupting volcanoes—rarely a week goes by when you don’t see headlines about these types of natural disasters, which…
Volume 8 Issue 4
June 2018
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FEATURES
07.17.2018
Ron Roth Helps Steer Single-Photon
A Tale of People, Acquisitions and Technology
In the early years of this century, Leica Geosystems’ lidar guru Ron Roth and LIDAR Magazine managing editor Stewart Walker were both employed…
07.17.2018
Vital Deployment of Lidar Data for Emergency Response–Rapid, Effective, Essential
Knowledge is power, and the more we know the stronger we become. In times of distress or disaster, acquiring highly accurate information becomes…
07.16.2018
Evolution of Point Cloud
Wikipedia has defined a “Point Cloud” as a set of data points in some coordinate system. In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points…
07.16.2018
Captured Once, Used Often
Mobile mapping reduces costs, increases efficiency
When mobile mapping solutions were introduced in the year 2000, the city of Amsterdam saw many uses for the 360-degree geo-referenced images. Mobile…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
07.17.2018
Summer Learning
I’m writing this at home in the hinge of a diptych of learning opportunities. I’ve just returned from the AEC Next/SPAR 3D conference…
Random Points
07.16.2018
Metrically Thinking
OK, this article, in keeping with the column title, is truly a Random Point! There has been a lot of talk lately about…
DEPARTMENTS
07.17.2018
Points & Pixels
Leica Geosystems, Matterport Partner to Combine Digital Reality, Immersive Media Norcross, Ga./Sunnyvale, Calif., 13 June 2018—Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, industry leader in…